- Frank Warren reports surgeon’s verdict on end of Joyce bout
- Fighting on risked ‘potentially career-ending double vision’
An eye specialist has told Daniel Dubois he could have suffered career-ending double vision had he not quit in the 10th round of his heavyweight fight against Joe Joyce last weekend, Frank Warren has said.
“His consultant is Miss Vickie Lee and her diagnosis was that he had ‘left medial orbital fractures’,” Warren, Dubois’ promoter, said late on Saturday. He added that Lee, the consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Charing Cross, Central Middlesex and Northwick Park hospitals, had advised that “it was fortunate the fight was stopped when he sustained a fracture, otherwise there was a risk of further trauma, and it could cause more orbital tissues and extra ocular muscles that move the eyeball to be entrapped into fractured fragments and cause potentially career-ending double vision”.
